Who had ideas that many workers of the industrial era followed?

Henry Ford was an inventor during the Industrial Revolution, who had ideas that many workers followed. In addition to inventing the Model T and revolutionizing the way Americans transported themselves, he also contributed by creating the assembly line. To mass produce a certain item in the most efficient manner, each worker specialized in making one part, and then would pass it along to the next worker, who would be specialized in making the next part, and so on and so forth.